Panel Delays Subpoenas

AP

Published: January 14, 1996

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 13—
Gov. Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas and the former Whitewater business partners of President Clinton will not have to respond to subpoenas from the Senate Whitewater Committee until after their criminal trials, a Federal judge announced on Friday.

Judge George Howard Jr. of Federal District Court said the committee had agreed not to enforce the subpoenas after he decided that the subpoenas could cause prejudicial publicity before their trials on fraud and conspiracy charges. Mr. Tucker had been told to appear before the committee on Jan. 5. James B. McDougal and his former wife, Susan, had been told to produce records by Thursday. They did not comply.